Contributors
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Francis Blessington is a poet, critic, novelist, and translator. His latest book is a verse translation of Euripides’s Trojan Women, Helen, and Hecuba.
Robert Buffington has contributed to the SR since 1974. He is completing his biography of Allen Tate.
Billy Collins’s latest collection is Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems. He is a recipient of the Aiken Taylor Award, and he served as U.S. Poet Laureate 2001–2003.
Denis Corish is a professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Bowdoin College. He has had a lifelong interest in the nature of poetry and is the author of “A New Apology for Poetry” in the spring 1999 issue of the SR.
Robert Crossley is emeritus professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. A biographer, editor, and literary critic, he has written on a broad range of writers, especially H. G. Wells and Olaf Stapledon. His latest book is Imagining Mars: A Literary History.
Kathleen Ford has published stories in Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, the Southern Review, the Virginia Quarterly, the Antioch Review, and elsewhere. Her first novel was published by St. Martin’s Press.
Brendan Galvin’s seventeenth poetry collection, The Air’s Accomplices, will appear in 2015 from the lsu Press. His prizes include the Aiken Taylor Award.
Kevin Gardner, who professes English at Baylor University, is the author of Betjeman: Writing the Public Life. He writes extensively on twentieth-century British poetry.
Poet and critic Dana Gioia recently published his fourth volume of poems, Pity the Beautiful. In 2014 he was selected for the Aiken Taylor Award. A former chairman of the nea, he currently holds a chair as the Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California.
Jean Hollander has published five books of poems. She was awarded the Gold Medal from the City of Florence for her verse translations (with Robert Hollander) of Dante’s Commedia published by Doubleday.
Patricia Hooper’s most recent book of poetry is Aristotle’s Garden, which was awarded the Bluestem award. Her poems have appeared in the American Scholar, Poetry, the Atlantic Monthly, the Southern Review, the Kenyon Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere.
Marc Hudson, a longtime contributor, teaches creative writing and environmental literature at Wabash College. He is at work on a collection of essays on the ethics of dwelling.
Warren Leamon has published poetry, fiction, and criticism in various periodicals and has taught English, American, and Anglo-Irish literature in the U.S. and Japan. His last poems in these pages were awarded the Allen Tate prize.
William Logan’s most recent book of poetry is Madame X (2012). His new book of criticism, Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure, was published last spring. He earned the Aiken Taylor Award in 2013.
Peter Makuck has been twice winner of the Brockman Campbell Award for the best book of poetry by a North Carolinian. His Long Lens: New and Selected Poems was published in 2010.
David Mason’s latest books are Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade and Davey McGravy, tales in verse for children and adult children.
Thomas Jennings McLaughlin’s work has appeared in Poem (UK) and the Poetry Salzburg Review, among other periodicals.
Robert Miles has an m.a. in English, a library-science degree, and many years in writing music for musical theater. He is a longtime reviewer for the SR and has published articles in the New Republic. He is also the author of two books—Bootleg Music (anecdotes) and First and Last Love (an autobiography).
George Monteiro was a young instructor in the Brown University English department in 1962–1963 when John Berryman served as visiting professor, substituting for the poet Edwin Honig, who was on leave.
Wyatt Prunty’s ninth collection, “Couldn’t Prove, Had to Promise,” is forthcoming from the Johns Hopkins [End Page ix] University Press. He lives in Sewanee, where he is the founding director of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
Timothy Riordan’s poems have appeared in such periodicals as the North American Review, Envoi (UK), the Cincinnati Poetry Review, the Journal of Kentucky Studies, the Santa Fe Literary Review, and the New Review. He has published four collections of...
